blam
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈblæm], [ˈblam]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -æm
Etymology 1 edit
By onomatopoeia.
Noun edit
blam (plural blams)
Interjection edit
blam
- A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.
- That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*
Verb edit
blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang)
- (intransitive) To fire a gun.
- (transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot.
- (transitive) To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact.
- 2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:
- Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
blam (uncountable)
- (Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog.
- 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:
- […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]
- 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:
- To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
blam
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
blam n (plural blamuri)
- public disapproval, condemnation
Declension edit
Declension of blam
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) blam | blamul | (niște) blamuri | blamurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) blam | blamului | (unor) blamuri | blamurilor |
vocative | blamule | blamurilor |
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from blamírati.
Noun edit
blȃm m (Cyrillic spelling бла̑м)
- (Serbia, colloquial) (feeling of) embarrassment
Related terms edit
- blamáža (“(an instance of) embarrassment”)
- blamírati (“to embarrass”)